Alex L. Zhang

The Mismanaged Geniuses Hypothesis: a 4B model hits 100% where Opus 4.6 gets 76%

Alex Zhang, Zed Li and Omar Khattab's Mismanaged Geniuses Hypothesis argues frontier LMs are undermanaged, not undersized: a 4B model RL-trained on 32k-context tasks hits 100% on a 1M-context, 8-needle test versus Opus 4.6's ~76% and Gemini 3 Pro's ~26%.